Improvement in processes for preserving meats during transportation and storage



J. J. BATE. Prooess for Preserving Meats during Transportation andStorage.

N0'. 197,314. fatented Nov. 20,1877.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN J. BATE, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN PROCESSES FOR PRESERVING MEATS DURING TRANSPORTATION ANDSTORAGE.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 197,314, dated November20, 1877; application filed December` 1, 1876.

To all 'whom -z't may concern:

VBe it known that I, JOHN J. BATE, in the city of Brooklyn, in thecounty Aof Kings and State of New York, have invented certainImprovements in .Processes for Preserving Meats During .lransportatiouand Storage, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to the transportation and storage of meats inlarge pieces-as, for example, in quarters-either by railway or steamer;and its object is to prevent the discoloration of the surface of themeat and the taint to the enternal portions of the meat, which, bymtthods hitherto adopted for preserving the same during transportation,fre quently occur.

My said invention is based upon the discovery that fibrous or wovenmaterial has the power of absorbing from the atmospheric air the germswhich provoke incipient decay ou the surface of the meat, as aforesaidand my said invention consists in the process of preserving meat duringtransportation and storage by'enveloping the same in a fibrous or wovenmaterial-suela for instance, as the fabric commonly termed burlapsandwhen thus enveloped subject the same to a current ot' air chilled orbrought either by natural or artiticial agencies to a suitably lowtemperature, maintaining the meat at the low temperatnre necessary toprevent decay, the envelope or burlaps or equivalent fibrous or wovenmaterial at the same time straining from the air the germs which provokethe incipientdecomposition by which the surface discoloration amltaintin g ordinarily experienced are produced.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, forming part of thisspecitication, Figure l is a longitudinal sectional view, representing arefrigerating apparatus as employed in carrying my herein-describedprocess into effect; and Fig. 2 is a side view, indicating aquarter ofbeefenveloped in fibrous or woven mater ial, as in the practice of mysaid process.

1n the practice of my said invention I provide any suitable chill-roomor ret'rigeratingchamber, within or through which a current of air isproduced. Such current may be either from the external atmospherethrough said chill-room or refrigerating-chamber, and thence out again;or the said chamber or room may be closed against, access of theexternal atmosphere, and its contained air be caused to pass over andover again through a suitable ice-box or equivalent means of reducingthe temperature thereof; and this causing ot the air. to pass repeatedlythrough the said ice-box or the like may be either by achange in thedensity of the air, as in the well-known Lyman refrigerator, or the saidcirculation of the air through the ice-box may be produced by means of afaublower arranged in any suitable manner-as, for instance, in thedrawing, Fig. 1.

Having thus provided the apparatus, the use of which is involved in onepart or element of myinvention, I take the meat-as, for example,quarters ot' beefand wrap them around with burlaps or other like fibrousor woven material, preferably sewing the burlaps or tying the same tohold it in place. The'meat being thus surrounded with the aforesaidmaterialin other words, having its surface covered thereby-I then placeor hang the quarters of beef or the other pieces of meat, enveloped asjust herein set forth, within the chillroom-as, for example, in Fig. 1,above referred to, in which the chill-room is represented at A, and thequarters of beef enveloped or covered, as described, by thereference-letter The air,

room, as hereinbefore explained, passes through the interstices of the'fibrous material in which the meatis wrapped, and thereby chills thesame and keeps the entire mass at the low temperature requisite to itspreservation; and the circulating air thus passing to and in contactwith the meat has the germs of disease or decay eft'ectually sitted orstrained therefrom, the envelope not interfering with the access of airto the meat and the consequent requisite refrigeration thereof, but, ashereinhet'ore set forth, eliminating from the air as it comes in contactwith the meat those causes of decomposition and decay which, withoutthis covering to the meat, cause the surface ot' the meat to lose whatis termed by butchers its bloom-in other words, the crisp and freshappearance-upon which its highest market value depends. The saidcovering also prevents that further decay which, in ordinary practice,often destroys the taste and tlavor,

being caused to circulate through the chillo a l97-3lfl and evenreaclesncomlition of incipient putrerent of nir of suitably low andregulated 176m-,

faction in the surface portions ot' the luc-(1t. pernture, substantially:is and for the purpose I claim as my inventionset forth. e Theberein-desc1bed process of' preservinff i t, nient during transportntlonand storage by en- JOHN, J BATE veloping the same in n covering oi'fibrous or Witnesses:

Il'. WELLS, Jr., EDWARD HOLLY.

woven mnterinl, and subjecting; it when tlins enveloped to thecontinuons action of a cnr- Letters Potent No. 197,314, grunted November20, 1377, upon the application ot' John J. tinte, of 'Brooklyn7 NewYork, for nn improvement in Processes for I resorvinggl i Monts duringrTrunslmrttttion :unl Storage, hnvng issued witinmt lnnitnizion, :is required by section 18S? ofthe Revised Statutes, anni n-iiidnvts hau-'ing`been tiled in the lutent Uliee thntsnid liet-ters Patent have been lost,:unl therefore eninnot be returned t'er uorreetion, in eoxnplinnee withthe request ofthe porties in interest, I hereby append n eertilente to:t er x tiiei copy of said Lettere` lntent limiting, the terni thereof',so thnt it shall expire with n. patent obtained b v the pntentee in(Jammin, No.ib, dat-ted J'nnunry S), 1577, for the suine invention.

Itis hereby oertiiied that t-he proper entries und corrections have beennnule in the tiles und record t." ink; lnhnt Olee.

In testimony whereof I hnve hereunto set my hund und unused the Seul ofthe lzti'ent Ottice to be ni'tixed this third day of July, A. D. 1853.

[SEAL] E. )L MARBLE,

Commissioner of Patents. Approved H. M. TELLER,

Secretary ofthe Interior.

It is found that the following certificate has beenattaehedto acertified copy of Letters Patent granted to John J. Bate, forImprovements in P for Preserving Meats during Transportation andStorage, No. 197,314, dated November 20, 1877 Letters Patent No.197,314, granted November 20, 1877, upon the application of John "13ste,of Brooklyn, New York, for an improvement in for Preserving Meats duringTransportation and Storage," having issued without limitation, asrequired by section 4887 of the Revised Statutes, and adavits havingbeen led in the Patent Ofiee that sai? Letters Patent have been lost,and therefore can not be returned for' correction; in compliance withthe request of the parties in interest, I hereby append eertcate to a.oertied copy of said Letters Patent limiting the term thereof', so thatit shall expire with a patent obtained by the patenten in Canada, No.6,938, dated January 9, 1877, for the same invention.

It is hereby certified sat the proper entries and corrections have beenmade in the files and records of the Patent Oiee.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal ofthe Patent Ofliee to be aix this 3d day of July, A. D. 1883.

[SEAL] E. M. MARBLE, 4 Oommsmomr qf Patents. Approved:

H. M: TELLER,

Sanary of un Inman Y `An affidavit having been filed` in the Patent Oiceshowing that said certified copy, bearing said certieate, been lost andtherefore cannot be returned for correction;

Now, in :compliance with the request of the parties in interest, saidcertificate is hereby canceled and it is hereby certified that. saidLetters Patent are issued for the' term of seventeen years, from andafter the date of November 20, 187 7, subject to the limitation, if any,prescribed by section 4887 of the Revised Statutes, by reason of apatent obtained by the patentes in Canada, No. 6,938, dated January 9,1877. v

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal ofthe Patent Ofee to be affixed this 8th la of January, 1892,

[SML] W. E. sIMoNDs, Approved: Oommtesmter.

Crans Busser,

Assia am Secretary of the Interior.

